Star Trek: Är Post-Atomic Horror fortfarande kanon?

Tredje världskriget (och dess resulterande kärnväxel och secsequent unpleasantness ) har refererats i varje Trek-show hittills. Du kanske vill notera att den har beskrivits väldigt inkonsekvent, för det mesta eftersom showens författare verkar vara något otroligt om huruvida Eugenics Wars ska anses vara en del av andra världskriget eller något distinkt.

TOS

SPOCK: They do seem to have escaped the carnage of your first three world wars, Doctor.

MCCOY: They have slavery, gladiatorial games, despotism.

SPOCK: Situations quite familiar to the six million who died in your first world war, the eleven million who died in your second, the thirty seven million who died in your third. Shall I go on?

TOS: Bread and Circuses

TNG

DATA: According to our astrometric readings we're in the mid twenty-first century. From the radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere I would estimate we have arrived approximately ten years after the Third World War.

RIKER: Makes sense. Most of the major cities have been destroyed. There are few governments left. Six hundred million dead. No resistance.

Star Trek: First Contact

DS9

BASHIR: Two years? Isn't that a bit harsh?

BENNETT: I don't think so. Two hundred years ago we tried to improve the species through DNA resequencing, and what did we get for our trouble? The Eugenics Wars. For every Julian Bashir that can be created, there's a Khan Singh waiting in the wings. A superhuman whose ambition and thirst for power have been enhanced along with his intellect. The law against genetic engineering provides a firewall against such men and it's my job to keep that firewall intact. I've made my offer. Do you accept?

RICHARD: Yes.

Doktor Bashir, jag antar

VOY

DOCTOR: Throughout human history weapons of mass destruction were often designed in the hopes that they'd never be used.

SEVEN: And yet, in Earth's Third World War, nuclear weapons accounted for six hundred million casualties. Were they looking on the bright side?

DOCTOR: An unfortunate exception.

Voy: In the Flesh

ENT

ARCHER: For thousands of years, my people had similar problems. We fought three world wars that almost destroyed us. Whole generations were nearly wiped out.

KOLOS: What changed?

ARCHER: A few courageous people began to realise they could make a difference.

ENT: Judgement

och

JOSIAH: And they sat by while millions of our people died. World War Three.

TUCKER: We didn't make contact with the Vulcans until ten years after the war.

JOSIAH: But they were up there with their superior technology. They could've stopped it, but they didn't. I think it suited their plans. A devastated Earth was much easier for them to control.

ENT: Terra Prime

Eugenikskriget ägde rum på 1990-talet och var en separat konflikt som varade genom det tidiga 21-talet. De var hemliga krig och inte känd som Eugenics Wars tills länge efteråt.

Andra världskriget blev kämpat år 2053. Asien tycktes ha drabbats mest skada, även om flera städer i Nordamerika och Europa förstördes och levnadsvillkoren var sämre än de hade varit sedan den stora depressionen (första kontakten) på ett fotografi av en av kapten Janeways förfäder i Voyager var effekten tydligen mindre svår på vissa ställen. Det mesta av Post Atomic Horror (inklusive mutanterna och monster som framkom senare) verkar ha hänt i Asien (vilket också kan förklara varför det finns så få asiater i Star Trek totalt). Enligt Picard hade världen kunnat återhämta sig "inom en generation" (första kontakten) efter att ha träffat Vulcans.